Brexit farce: Comedy of errors

It is 50 years since Britain’s Monty Python comedy team’s Flying Circus took off on TV and it is proving as popular as ever, with new devotees watching all four series and 45 episodes on Netflix and arguing about the best sketch — was it the Dead Parrot one or The Ministry Of Silly Walks?

Nowadays, the equivalent to that sense of the absurd is coming not from comedians but from deadly serious politicians in the British House of Commons. The Brexit roadshow meanders on and on and has now taken on Monty Pythonesque dimensions.